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	<title>Black Sheep</title>
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	<description>The soapbox of Chad and Elisa Parry</description>
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		<title>Rich at Heart</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Red brick exterior: the resident has puritan morals. Drawn blackout shades: he&#8217;s also a privacy activist. Dual chimneys: owned by a storyteller. Neoclassical symmetry: an atheist. Matt scanned the road, accidentally reading each neighbor&#8217;s thoughts as the car rolled by. Their opinions were embodied in the designs of their homes, proving to Matt that there [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blacksheep.parry.org/archives/rich-at-heart</link>
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		<title>Two Schools</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Matthew 13:13 warns: Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. Many of Jesus&#8217; teachings were meant not to be understood. His parables were famous for disguising more than they revealed. I believe that hidden meanings are a pattern that is required [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blacksheep.parry.org/archives/two-schools</link>
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		<title>Superheroes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I liked Jason Statham&#8217;s hyper-competent character in The Transporter. A character like that would have to exercise more than the average amount of discipline. Life would consist of months of routine preparation punctuated by high-speed chases. During those boring months, it would be necessary to avoid attracting any attention. In particular, a successful transporter would [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blacksheep.parry.org/archives/superheroes</link>
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		<title>Plan of Truth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a popular Mormon doctrine that describes the future of the soul. It&#8217;s always called the Plan of Salvation. Teachers present it so often that I have wondered what made it so important. People wouldn&#8217;t accidentally find themselves in Hell just because they forgot the order in the diagram. If you wanted, you could draw [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blacksheep.parry.org/archives/plan-of-truth</link>
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		<title>Small and Simple</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was a younger girl, probably 10 or 11, my goal was to be translated&#8211;to wander out in the wilderness and be “twinkled” as my mom put it. My plan was to never die like the majority of mere mortals. And, oh yeah, my other goal was to see Christ and talk to him [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medical Manslaughter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A short story following the Machine of Death premise Instructions for tomb raiding, number 1: Act first, think later. My first dig was for Mom. Hopefully she was glad to be receiving visits still, in her bungalow underground. Even if the dearly departed would have preferred privacy, I didn&#8217;t feel like I had much of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blacksheep.parry.org/archives/medical-manslaughter</link>
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		<title>Forgotten</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A short story following the Machine of Death premise &#8220;Power corrupts, to a point. Somebody said that absolute power corrupts absolutely. But he didn&#8217;t have any idea what he was talking about.&#8221; Mr. Seher watched his own hands gesticulating. &#8220;It&#8217;s the desire for more power that corrupts. So once you hold complete, absolute power in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blacksheep.parry.org/archives/forgotten</link>
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		<title>Slow and Steady</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A widespread investing myth is the time diversification fallacy&#8211;the belief that young people should hold riskier assets than old people. People imagine a young person&#8217;s portfolio to be safer than an old person&#8217;s because it is somehow protected by time. This idea is a dangerous weed that cannot be easily uprooted. Here are my own [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blacksheep.parry.org/archives/slow-and-steady</link>
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		<title>Dating</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Advice #1: Great girls make bad relationship decisions all the time. You just have to be there when it happens. Advice #2: If you want to catch a girl&#8217;s eye, it&#8217;s important to make a big first impression. It&#8217;s less important to make a good first impression. Just make it a big one.]]></description>
		<link>http://blacksheep.parry.org/archives/dating</link>
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		<title>Swing vote</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chad and I were talking about future presidential candidates tonight. Hopefully it doesn&#8217;t make my vote any less credible that if we disagreed I would look more closely at why he was choosing someone else. I highly respect him and know we have very similar views. He said he would do the same. That made [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blacksheep.parry.org/archives/swing-vote</link>
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